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April 9, 2009

US to Join Iran in Global Talks
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The Obama administration has announced it will now join international
talks over Iran’s nuclear program. The move reverses a Bush
administration policy supporting the negotiations between Iran and
Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China but refusing to take part.
Earlier in the day, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad renewed calls
for talks with the US, but called on the Obama administration to be
“honest.”

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “If a hand extended to the
Iranian nation is truly extended with honesty, justice and respect, Iran
welcomes it. But if, God forbid, it is a hand that is pretending to be
honest, but in reality is dishonest, the response of the Iranian nation
would be the same response that it gave to Mr. Bush.”



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